KPN selects Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs as adviser for network business
16 Feb 2010
Telecommunications equipment maker, Alcatel-Lucent today its Bell Labs has been selected by European service provider KPN to advise on a network and business transformation programme.
Bell Labs is the research and development arm of Alcatel-Lucent.
With 2009 revenues of €15.2 billion, Paris, France-based Alcatel-Lucent, a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, will support KPN, a leading telecommunications and ICT service provider in the Netherlands, to meet the complex challenges of managing explosive growth in traffic on its networks.
Bell Labs will work with KPN to further develop strategic technology roadmaps that provide a systematic approach to network transformation.
It will also generate comprehensive business scenarios that take into account dozens of business and technology parameters, and utilize Bell Labs-developed decision-support methods and tools to enable KPN to run business case and network optimization scenarios on a real-time and as needed basis.
''Our customers, both consumers and business, are using fixed and mobile networks and broadband services in completely new ways and we are transforming our networks and services accordingly,'' said Joost Farwerck, executive vice president of KPN Wholesale & Operations.
